Performing in the 2017 Green Show on Saturday, September 23
This is their first season at the OSF Green Show
Momentum. Acceleration. Gravity. Slopes. Wheels. Dance on a ramp.
Kinetic Light:
Alice Sheppard is the founder and artistic lead for Kinetic Light (kineticlight.org), a collaboration with dancer Laurel Lawson and lighting and video artist Michael Maag. Other project collaborators are artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, physicist Yevgeniya Zastavker, and students of Olin College. Marýa Wethers is the Project Manager for Kinetic Light.
Working in the disciplines of art, design, architecture, and social justice, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the intersections of disability, dance, and race. Through rigorous investment in the histories, cultures, and artistic work of people with disabilities and people of color, Kinetic Light transforms our understandings of the dancing body thereby enabling new, powerful understandings of the moving world.
Alice Sheppard:
An award-winning choreographer, Alice creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging with disability arts, culture, and history, Alice attends to the complex intersections of disability, gender, and race. Her work has been commissioned by CRIPSiE, Full Radius Dance Company, and MOMENTA Dance Company.
She studied with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Alice joined AXIS Dance Company, where she toured nationally and taught in the company’s education and outreach programs. Alice has danced in projects with Ballet Cymru, GDance, and Marc Brew in the United Kingdom. In the United States, she has worked with Marjani Forté, MBDance, Infinity Dance Theater, and Steve Paxton. As a guest artist, she has danced with AXIS Dance Company, Full Radius Dance Company, and MOMENTA Dance Company. Alice has also performed as a solo artist and academic speaker throughout the United States.
Laurel Lawson:
Laurel Lawson found in dance a pursuit that combined her lifelong love of athleticism and art. After her first modern dance class, she fell in love with the challenge and creative discipline required and chose to pursue a professional career in dance.
Laurel joined Full Radius Dance in January of 2004, and has been privileged to perform in Atlanta and around the world both with the company and with other collaborations and solo projects. Highlights include guesting in festivals in Italy and South Korea and a film appearance in “Warm Springs” (HBO, 2005).
In addition to performing, choreographing, and teaching dance; Laurel is also a lifelong advocate, a public speaker, a member of the USA Women's Developmental Sled Hockey team, and a product designer and co-founder of an engineering consultancy based in Decatur, GA.
Michael K Maag: Lighting and Projection Designer. He has worked with Lighting and Projections since 1978 in theatre, dance, musicals, opera, and in planetariums from Florida to Washington. Michael sculpts with light and shadow to create lighting environments that tell a story. He has built custom optics for projections in theatres, museums, and planetariums. Michael also designs and builds electronics and lighting for costumes and scenery. Michael is currently the Resident Lighting Designer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His designs and projects have been seen on OSF’s stages for the last 18 years, and at Arena Stage, BAM, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Henry Hudson Planetarium – Albany, and many other places.
Kinetic Light on Community
Disabled people, wheelchair users, skaters, people who deal with slopes and wheels.
kineticlight.org